Improvement in cotton-bale ties



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Cotton Bale-Ties.

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Wijfnesses lnve'ni'or UNITED STATEs ATENT CFFICE.

lJAMES E. LEA, OF SUMMIT, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN c orToN-BALE TiEs.

.Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,276, datedFebruary l0, 1874; application filed Y July 29, 1873.

To all 'whom fit may co'nccru y Be it lrnown that I, JAMES E. LEA, ofthe town of Summit, in the county of Pike and State of Mississippi, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Bale Ties, and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which forlnpart of this specification. Y

Figure l. is a side view, showing the tie fastened. Fig. 2 is a topview, showing the tie fastened. Fig. 3 is a -top view of one end of thetie, showing shoulder and catch; and Fig. el is a side view of theopposite end, showing loop for fastening the tie Jtogether.

Like letters in all the figures of the drawings indicate like parts.

This invention consists of a tie for cotton and other bales, inadeofhoopiron, having a shoulder at one end, provided with a catch to receiveand hold the opposite end when looped over it so as to dispense with theinconvenience and expense of a buckling device, thus render ing the tiesimple and light in its construction and adaptation for the purposedesired, as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and pointed out inthe claim.

A is the tie, having' the end a made of sut icient width to form theshoulder band catch c, which latter simply consists of a projection lefton the corner edge thereof. (See Figs. 2 and 3.) The opposite end of thetie is made with a loop, cl, by bending it over and down until itassumes the shape seen in Figs. l and 4. The tie toward the shoulderedend is made thicker than the rest of it, (see Fig. 1,) so as togive itthe requisite strength.

The tie is fastened around the bale by slip ping the loop end over theshoulder until it comes fairly between the inner edge of the tie and thecatch, when the pressure of the bale upon. the tie will draw the loopthereof tightly upon the shoulder, and the catch so that it cannot slipoff.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The cotton-bale tie A, having one end made with a shoulder, b, and catchc, and the other end with a loop, (l, the whole constructed and fastenedsubstantially as' and for the purpose set forth. y

In testimony 'that I claim the foregoing' I have hereunto set my handthis lst day of l\f'[ay, 1873.

JAMES E. LEA. Vitnesses T. R. STooKDALE, WM. H. GARLAND.

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